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  • Sailing without Ahab

    Ecopoetic Travels

    by Steve Mentz ...
    Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville’s epic in bold new lightCome sail with I.We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod’s American voyage steers its course across the curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone at the helm. We are leaving one man and his madness on shore. Our ship overflows with glorious plurality ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Ocean

    by Dr Steve Mentz ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our relationship with the natural environment. Our engagement with the world's oceans can be destructive, as with today's deluge of plastic trash and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature

    Edited by Nicholas Helms, Steve Mentz ...
    Series series Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures
    Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our understanding of both. Water and especially oceanic spaces have been central to recent trends in the environmental humanities and premodern ecocriticism. Cognition, including ideas about the “extended ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the Blue Humanities

    by Steve Mentz ...
    An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of water-centric thinking. Comprised of multinational texts and materials, each chapter will provide readers with a range of primary and secondary sources, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Shipwreck Modernity

    Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719

    by Steve Mentz ...
    Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down. Similarly, writers, poets, and other thinkers searched for stability amid the cultural shifts that resulted from global expansion. The ancient master ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Romance for Sale in Early Modern England

    The Rise of Prose Fiction

    by Steve Mentz ...
    The major claim made by this study is that early modern English prose fiction self-consciously invented a new form of literary culture in which professional writers created books to be printed and sold to anonymous readers. It further claims that this period's narrative innovations emerged not solely from changes in early modern culture like print and the book market, but also from the rediscovery ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Break Up the Anthropocene

    by Steve Mentz ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epochWe live in a new world: the Anthropocene. The Age of Man is defined in many ways, and most dramatically through climate change, mass extinction, and human marks in the geological record. Ideas of the Anthropocene spill out from the geophysical sciences into the humanities, social sciences, the arts, and mainstream debates—but ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds 1400-1800

    Edited by Claire Jowitt, Craig Lambert, Steve Mentz ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    This book has been nominated for The Mountbatten Award for Best Book in the Maritime Media Awards 2021.The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field.Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare, the book shows how once ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture

    Edited by Steve Mentz, Martha Elena Rojas ...
    Series series Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
    During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the European-based empire and her rapidly expanding former colony ensured that the ocean became increasingly important to popular literary culture in both nations. This collection of ten essays by expert scholars in transatlantic British and American ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

    Edited by Craig Dionne, Steve Mentz ...
    "Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    Ocean

    by Dr Steve Mentz ...
    Narrated by Greg Lockett ...
    Series series Object Lessons

    Unabridged

    3 hours

    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.The ocean comprises the largest object on our planet. Retelling human history from an oceanic rather than terrestrial point of view unsettles our relationship with the natural environment. Our engagement with the world's oceans can be destructive, as with today’s deluge of plastic trash and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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